Fan-Tastic Fridays #9

‘Tis the season for terrible viruses… I’m a bit under the weather this week. So I promise not to mail off prizes until I’m germ-free. Prizes are fun to win and have delivered to your doorstep. Head cold and bronchitis germs? Not so much.

My collection of swag is dwindling, and I wasn’t sure what I could give away this week and then I remembered that I had a few left over Sinners holiday greeting cards from last year’s book-signing.

So this week, I’m giving away 10 holiday greeting cards from the members of Sinners.

To enter just answer the following question in the comment section below:

What’s your favorite holiday, and why?

10 winners will be selected and posted on Monday. Giveaway is open worldwide.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. I really need to get some writing done, but being vertical for more than a few minutes makes me feel worse. Perhaps I’ll try writing while lying down. Or maybe I’ll just sleep.

I am gonna be super cliche and say Christmas. I love holiday music, decorating, making way too many cookies and cupcakes, wrapping and of course unwrapping presents. I also love shopping for Christmas gifts. I like to put a lot of thought into what I get people and Christmas lets me do that. Its also the only time my entire family gets together really and there is always crazy delicious Puerto Rican food lol

My favorite holiday is the Epiphany, or, as we call it in Spain, “la noche de reyes” o “los reyes magos”. Searching for the perfect present, seeing the illusion of the children the day before when watching the big parade or “cabalgata” as the three kings come to the different cities in Spain, eating the typical swwet for the day ( el roscón de reyes) as everybody open their presents… Magical

I love Christmas. Since almost my entire family lives across the country, I get to travel to see them, and enjoy the magic with them, watching the niece and nephew open gifts, and just have together time. Plus, since I’m off work, I get to read. A LOT.

Christmas is my favorite holiday and time of year. People smile eaiser, laugh more, are more compassionate and giving and caring. They let little things that would normally upset them go and embrace the “reason for the season”
Love one another.

Christmas^^ This is the happiest holiday. Christians are happy because their God is born. People gather together, they are kind to each other, and make good deeds, and there is magic atmosphere where everything is possible

Feel better Olivia!! My favorite holiday is my birthday (which happens to be tomorrow!) ok, Halloween comes in at a tie with my birthday. Halloween is so fun to dress up and be something or someone you’re not in your day to day life. Plus it’s not nearly as stressful as the rest of the holidays.

My favorite holiday is thanksgiving because even though we all eat the time spent with family helping out my grandma make dinner is what’s special because one day a year no one is yelling or even crying there is peace for once I love being surrounded by family it what makes the holiday so speacial plus we have so much fun being ourselves

Halloween. The weather is changing. The air is cold and crisp. Harvest is In and the abundance of food is stockpiled. Apples cider offers comfort against the cold nights. Dressing up in costumes to be someone or something else for the night. The veil between worlds is thin and ancestral voices offer support. It a reminder of the cycle of life and death and the connection and celebration of process.
But really I love watching my kids oh out to collect candy and hand candy to the neighborhood children seeing what they have chosen to become.

I am a Christmas fan! I love the traditions, the decorations, the lights, and shopping for just the right present for someone special! My husband laughs at me because I can stare at our 9′ monster Christmas tree for hours.

My favourite holiday is Christmas…. Spending time with my family.. Especially to two gorgeous little boys…. Snuggled on the couch watching Christmas movies, eating lots of treats and most of all seeing the look of sheer delight on their faces when their eyes widen on Christmas morning when the see Santa has been and the start ripping into the wrapping on their presents…. PRICELESS!

My favorite holiday is the 4th of July. I love the cookout’s, spending time with family and friends, celebrating our country’s birthday and I really love fireworks! Actually I think I just really like fire and seeing things blowup. Pyrotechnics at concerts are so awesome!

Christmas… I love doing outdoor decorations and seeing all the lights. Christmas time and seeing all the lights is one of the only good memories I have from childhhod and I want to give other kids that memory as well.

Hi Olivia😃
Hope you are feeling better soon, this time of year is the worst for colds/flu.
My favorite Holiday is New Years!
I feel like it’s a new clean slate every year… You have the opportunity to do anything and everything;)

Please feel better! Those viruses are the worst and sleep is the only real cure😦. I adore Christmas the most. Everyone is so nice to each other and I get loads of snuggle time with my hubby (and sexy gifts to enjoy with him, too).

Well…I would have to say my son’s birth day…September 10th…while it may not be a holiday to you all…there is no other day in my life that has brought me more joy than that single day…a true moment to celebrate the greatest gift I’ve even been given! Happiest of all holidays to each of you…no matter what day you choose.

Christmas is my favorite I always love to see my girls faces light up with everything, Now that they are older and with their boyfriends it is noce that they come home and we stll celebrate as a family.

I hope you feel better soon! I have to say my favorite holiday is Halloween. It embodies everything good about Fall: crisp weather, parties, and if you look at it from the Wiccan point of view, Death, which is where I like to think the idea of spooking people came from. Also, I love to see all the different costumes folks like to come up with for parties or Trick and Treating!

Hope you get well soon! My favorite holiday is Halloween. I love the costumes and taking my son trick or treating, besides it kicks of the fall holiday season and from then on its cooking baking through the new year🙂

I love Halloween because for one day out of the year I can trade reality in for a fantasy by dressing up as anybody I want to be and can get away with it without being considered crazy!😉 I hope you feel better soon.

I love the 4th of July! I love decorating for it with flags going up our driveway and then decorating the backyard for our barbecue party! So much fun with friends and family being outside playing volleyball and horseshoes. We have a great time then go down to the raceway to see the fireworks. Good times 😀

I have to say christmas with all the lights and children getting excited then the look on their faces when they wake christmas morning and see that SANTA has brought all that they asked for their little faces light up xx

My favorite holiday is Christmas because it gives me a chance to spend time with all of my family. It gives me a chance to see family who I don’t get to see often enough. Growing up, I always thought it was all about the gifts, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned it’s about so much more.

I love Christmas. Not only because of the cold weather with snow ( but the is rarely snow in south Mississippi. Lol ) which allows cuddle time
By the fireplace with hot coco🙂 but my birthday is also on Christmas.

My favorite holiday is Halloween because I can dress up as anything I want to be, hang out with my friends and scare the trick or treaters, and of course party and consume way too much beer while in costume resulting in passing out with costume contacts in and waking up nearly blind and in pain but wouldn’t change a thing because it is the basis for awesome memories!

my favorite holiday is Halloween, I love the decorations of skulls and ghosts etc, and having fun dressing my youngest up for trick or treat, and not to mention watching horror movies with my husband🙂 I do hope you get better soon!!

Love Christmas cause its always fun to give cool gifts. But here in Savannah St. Patrick’s day is awesome! It’s a city wide celebration with a 4 1/2 hour parade. All the schools are let out because no one would show up. The drinking starts with breakfast at 6:30 am and goes on all day.🙂

Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. From Christmas music, to baking Christmas cookies, to holiday parties with family & friends, to enjoying neighborhood lights and to the sheer joy of giving, it’s always been a special and magical time of the year for me!!

I really love CHRISTMAS time. it’s where we celebrate it with the ones we love, family and friends. We give gifts and eat a lot. have a great time bonding and catching up with things that happens in our life.

I ♥ Christmas! This is the time of year I like to try & put smiles on others faces! If it’s just getting a simple Christmas card, going up to someones door & singing Christmas carols, surprising a co-worker with a little holiday cheer, spending time with friends & family or just seeing my kids faces on Christmas morning!

As much as I love Christmas in recent years my favorite holiday has become New Years because it is the only time of the year that we manage to get together with friends that we have moved away from! Family is great, but wouldn’t survive family without my loving friends!!

I LOVE Halloween! The decorations, its hoodie weather, the costumes, the movies & tv shows… ok so everything that is scary & horror filled including books… its just fun! I love it! I’m not real big on this time of year because its stressful and plus a lot of great memories that have been tarnished… Halloween not so much.

It’s gotta be Halloween for me! it’s the Fantasy and make Believe! I dress up from morning to night, sometimes wear up to 3 different costumes a day. My parents dressed up Their whole lives and I carry on the tradition! My kids on the other hand (all over 16) think I’m a raving lunatic. But Halloween it is because that to me is Fantasy!

Hope you feel better soon Olivia!!! My favorite holiday is Christmas. I love spending time with my family and friends that I don’t always get to see. Everyone seems to be in a little better mood than usual…..and I love Christmas music!! Cheesy, but that’s ok! LOL!

My favorite holiday is Independence Day aka July 4th because itis also my birthday. I was 8 years old before I realized that the fireworks weren’t just for me. I have only had one birthday without fireworks and that was the year we were in Florida andthey banned fireworks because of wildfires.